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Notable Narratives

From 2006 to 2010, the Nieman Narrative Digest featured outstanding examples of narrative journalism drawn from newspapers, magazines, radio and television. Editors for the site were Nell Lake, Constance Hale and Andrea Pitzer.

In June 2010, the Nieman Foundation folded key elements of the Digest into the Nieman Storyboard site, including the Notable Narratives. What follows is the full archive of those stories.

Somewhere over the rainbow: the past and future of Niagara Falls


Art or abuse? A portrait of Larry Rivers


Losing in Vegas: Jay Caspian Kang’s “literary moment”


“California is a Place” draws viewers into dizzying, disturbing intimacy with the Golden State

After the Wall: the strange story of German reunification


GQ’s “An Army of One”: The war on terror finds its own Don Quixote

Christopher Goffard’s “Project 50″ and the hard-core homeless of Los Angeles


USA Today’s Katrina anniversary project: stories from the second line

Katy Butler shows the bitter side of medical intervention


Thomas Lake takes on the Brothers Grimm in “The Golden Boy and the Invisible Army”


Michael Kruse profiles Tampa Bay fugitive


Planet Money’s Adam Davidson solves a Haitian mystery and beats expectations


Joe Gaetjens’ magic at the 1950 World Cup (and everything it didn’t save him from)


Paul Nicklen goes to extremes with Polar Obsession


Aminatta Forna’s “The Last Vet”: a dog’s life